Okay, I’m mystified. Where’s the small grey-or-white text on the black background? Near as I can tell, it’s charcoal on white…

But hey, you might as well go ahead and me, too–after all, I use very-small-to-small lemon text on dark brown. :p

However, your suggestion is handy, and I shall apply it here, in light of two coinciding irritations that I find as egregious as the dialect: Very small gray or and white text on black background, and the use of grandiose noble titles outside of the confines of one’s specific roleplay.

Just so you know, I think you must be a terrific human being, but I’m “muting” this blog un-bookmarked, despite the fact that I’m sure I would enjoy reading it often if I could.

Mutin’ ain’t Hatin’

Hotspur

I could certainly argue or discuss several of the interesting points you made in your comment, but I feel that doing such a thing would not be a wise or valuable use of the time of either of us, however enjoyable it would have been.

Therefore, I will come right to the crux of the matter.

First of all, I welcome your admission, even under duress, that you did not properly understand the terms “race” or “racist” and therefore used them inappropriately. I am quite certain that was not easy for you to concede, so I will take your statement as the apology I am sure it was meant to be, and accept it gladly. To be clear, I would not have protested overly much if you had called me “Rude” or “Pig-headed” or “Criminally well-dressed”, I just took exception to your use of the term “Racist”, which you now admit I am not. I don’t mind being disliked, I simply insist on being disliked accurately.

As for your refreshing concession that you over-reacted to the entire matter, I will also take THIS as the apology I am sure you meant to make, and accept it as well in the same spirit.

Finally, as to the fact that a member of your “staff” was offended that I said I was muting them, I do offer my most humble and sincere regrets and apology for that fact and hope you will convey those sentiments to them. It truly was never my intention to insult them in any way, I simply felt I was being honest and forthright.

I do so hate offending anyone accidently, it’s like having the flu on a snow day.

I am quite sure in future we will never have occasion to encounter one another again except by the most unfortunate of accidents, but if we do, I promise you on my honour that I will never inform any of your “staff” before muting them again.

Enjoy your role play.

Yours most contritely,
BardHaven

I would have been happy to provide my opinion to you directly, but unfortunately I was crashing quite often during the Grand Tour, and I did not see you at any of the other events.

I have been told in no uncertain terms that my definition of ‘racist’ as I hold it is inaccurate. Understood.

Then I will say I found your attitude unacceptable. You have expressed, in the past, a sense of humour and particular behaviours which I did not particularly agree with, but if I was sufficiently bothered, I could quietly close the chat for a while until the conversation shifted. The more personal aspects involved the consent of another, and were (and are) none of my business. You often have interesting and valuable things to say, or have done in the past when I saw more of you in the areas I frequent.

This, however, was an insult to one of my staff, perhaps the final straw in a series of offences I have had to swallow to keep the peace and to be the ‘better man’. Perhaps it was a matter of unfortunate timing that you happened to hit this repeatedly-damaged sore spot; I will concede as much to some over-reaction. Part of it was due to disappointment and dismayed surprise.

However, I do not like to see anyone treated unfairly; you may accuse me of having failed in this in the past, but that is a matter for private mail. I have seen, however, a whole subsection of those for whom I am responsible be rejected simply for the way they speak. Not for reasons of ethics, morality, politics or even their collective history, but for an accent. What sort of ’supposed noble’ would I be if I did not defend my own? And who else is it acceptable to automatically mute? Who are the disposable people on the grid now?

You did not throw your rejection into the face of an ‘imaginary comic book character’, Herr Baron. You insulted a person. You may be dismissive of ‘roleplay’ as much as you like to trivialise those whom you exclude, but the value judgement was still given.

Yrs.,

Klaus Wulfenbach